Countries
Cambodia
  
Indonesia
  
National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
  
Indonesia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Australia, France, United States of America
  
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
  
- The Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
- The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
  
Similar To
Lao Language
  
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
  
Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Khmer-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Javanese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Khmer
  
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
ND
  
Halo
  
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
  
matur nuwun
  
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
  
piye kabare?
  
Good Night
ND
  
wengi sing apik
  
Good Evening
ND
  
Sugeng sọnten
  
Good Afternoon
ND
  
Sugeng siang
  
Good Morning
ND
  
Sugeng énjing
  
Please
ND
  
Not Available
  
Sorry
ND
  
Nyuwun pangapunten
  
Bye
ND
  
Kepanggih malih benjang
  
I Love You
ND
  
Kula tresna panjengan
  
Excuse Me
ND
  
Nuwun séwu
  
Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
  
Pekalongan
  
Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
  
26
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
  
Cirebon
  
Where They Speak
Vietnam
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
24
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Western Khmer
  
Arekan
  
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million
  
99+
82.00 million
  
19
Native Speakers
13.00 million
  
99+
76.00 million
  
13
Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
  
basa Jawa
  
Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
  
Djawa, Jawa
  
French Name
khmer central
  
javanais
  
German Name
Kambodschanisch
  
Javanisch
  
Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
  
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
  
Origin
14
  
450 AD
  
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Indonesian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
  
Javanese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
km
  
jv
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
khm
  
jav
  
ISO 639 2/B
khm
  
jav
  
ISO 639 3
khm
  
jav
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
khme1253
  
java1253
  
Linguasphere
Not Available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
Agglutinative
  
Khmer and Javanese Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Khmer and Javanese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Khmer and Javanese language. Khmer word for "Hello" is ND or Javanese word for "Thank You" is matur nuwun. Find more of such common Khmer Greetings and Javanese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Khmer vs Javanese Difficulty
The Khmer vs Javanese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Khmer Alphabets and Javanese Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Khmer and Javanese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Khmer and Javanese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Khmer is 44 weeks while to learn Javanese time required is 36 weeks.